Delahey Campus Principal Message

Hello Everyone,

Firstly, I’d like to welcome Snezana Veljanovski as Acting Campus Principal to the Delahey Campus.  She has only been here four weeks but in that time has made herself indispensable, she has got to know students and staff very quickly and organised Parent Teacher Interviews.   Snezana has been an Assistant Principal for many years and her experience is invaluable.

We recently launched a whole scale curriculum review with a particular focus on years 7 – 10 which is to be led by a sub-committee of the Curriculum Committee.  The Curriculum Committee was provided with the scope and context; the sub-committee is to provide guiding principles as recommendations to the Principal by the end of the year. Group members have since been nominated and / or elected and now begins their planning and consultative work with various bodies in the school community, including parents and students.

Interim reports were recently posted on Compass, followed by Parent Teacher Interviews last week.  We were pleased to note a marked improvement in attendance compared to 2018.  We welcome parents visiting the school and accessing their child’s teachers.

On August 16 we had the Year 12 VCAL Senior Project Presentations which were inspirational.  Students were extremely well prepared and presented their work professionally.  We are all very proud of them and they should be proud of themselves.  One group is going to present to the staff next week.

In another formal presentation, the Senior VCAL students will present their Pathways Outcome to a small audience this week.  Their teachers and Campus Principals look forward to assessing these because we see the culmination of six years’ of education being expressed by capable and forward looking young adults who are about to launch into the world of work and training.

This week several Delahey staff will participate in professional learning around writing developmental rubrics; the aim of which is to enable their students to more clearly understand the requirements of major assessment tasks.  We recently hosted English teachers from Strathmore College who came to learn about our reading initiative at Year 7.  They were most impressed by the students’ knowledge of themselves as readers, their capacity to talk about their data and how to set and achieve their reading goals.

As was forecast last time, we hosted a group of Melbourne Graduate School of Education graduates, plus someone from another university who heard about it (!) to find out about the wonderful opportunities they would have at Copperfield and to brief them on how to apply for jobs in the government sector, so they can get here.

Planning is underway for the Year 10 students who are going to do VCAL in 2020 to come to the Delahey Campus to see our current Year 11 VCAL students’ Community Project presentations on Friday October 11.  A group of Year 12 VCAL students will remain behind and run workshops with the Year 10s after the presentations.  Another example of wonderful student leadership.

We are beginning preparations for the Year 12 Awards Night, which takes place in late October and in the last week of this term, we will hold an assembly as a lead in to their end of year celebrations!  It comes around very quickly.

Until next time,

Ms Pip Griffiths and Ms Snezana Veljanovski

Campus Principals